AK-47 kB on video.

thanks for the vid. Thats about the last thing I would expect a kb! from.

Yikes.

I've never heard of anything like that happening to an AK.

Anyone care to speculate as to what exactly went wrong?

Great muzzle discipline after the accident

Maybe I have a sick sense of humor, but the last phrase before the video is over had me rolling.

Ok, I don't know how to turn it off.

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Anyone care to speculate as to what exactly went wrong?

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The latest tactic being used by insurgents in Iraq is to randomly place double-charged AK cartridges in magazines likely to be seized by U.S. forces in a raid. Then they just wait for a day when some soldier wants to blow off some steam by trying out something from the seized cache.

I saw the video posted on anothers site, this is what i observe:

The cases are ejecting forward at an angle about like the right side of a V ///// & upwards
Then at about 5 seconds something which appears larger than a case ejects rearward about at an angle like the left side of a V \\\\\\ & more towards the camera.
It is before the smoke & cover taking off - it is pretty quick, Maybe .5 to 1.0 seconds at most before the event.

I watched the video over to see if he gets a round or 2 off in between big rearward eject & KBoom.

what do you AK gurus think that was?

WNTFW

I watched the video and paused it when he had the failure. there is no smoke coming out of the barrel for the misfire so I'm guessing that a bullet got lodged in the barrel and the next round blew up and backfired. The guy said the spring was still in the AK so that's what makes me think the casing blew and "flipped the lid". I could be wrong though.

He ejected something that definitely didn't look like a casing. More like a part from the gun.

After the "rearward ejection" he still got a few more rounds off before the failure. My money is on a round stuck in the barrel just before he fired the failure

Guess thats why I wear safety glasses at the range!

Video's down due to "Terms of use Violation" did Youtube change their stance on guns all of a sudden?

"...so I'm guessing that a bullet got lodged in the barrel and the next round blew up and backfired."

If he had a squib that lodged in the barrel before the blow up then it is likely that a fresh round from the magazine would not have chambered, so unless he manually racks the action, a bullet lodged in the barrel is probably not the case.

Good Point Phil.

It seems that an unobstructed over pressurization caused the event in my opinion.

what if the bullet was stuck slightly down the barrel, like most squib kb's are? in basic we were constantly being warned of the dangers of pop and no kick with the bullet in the barrel. maybe i'm wrong but i don't think i am.

Youtube has pulled the vid down. Anyone know if it is on any other sites?

anyone know why youtube pulled it? There must be hundreds of gun videos/gun accident videos?????

Video's down due to "Terms of use Violation" did Youtube change their stance on guns all of a sudden?

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Funny, cause the videos of the gangbangers swinging around their Glocks are still up. I'm at work right now, though so I can't see it.

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Anyone care to speculate as to what exactly went wrong?
The latest tactic being used by insurgents in Iraq is to randomly place double-charged AK cartridges in magazines likely to be seized by U.S. forces in a raid. Then they just wait for a day when some soldier wants to blow off some steam by trying out something from the seized cache.

Well we did the same thing in Vietnam to the VC, except we used C4 instead of powder and we told our soldiers not to shoot anything they picked up.

if this is the same video. its alred discussed in rifle country

out of battery firing. hardly a kB.

Video's down due to "Terms of use Violation" did Youtube change their stance on guns all of a sudden?

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Nope my videos are still up.

And,

"I don't know how to turn it off"
I think he was talking about the camera.

Is there an alternate site where the video can be viewed?

GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND (just don't trust them with your rights)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b9c_1201440552